[Zope-CMF] cookies and CMF login

[Dieter Maurer]

Kelley, Sean writes:
 > I am in a windows environment and I am currently running Zope for an
 > Intranet on a Windows box which I may port to Linux.  Right now, people join
 > the CMF but I want to use cookies so that they do not have to always login.
 > Once they have logged in, I would like them to be able to come back and
 > still be logged in a month from now.  I want to obviously remember the user
 > name and password and do not want them to have to log in to see the site as
 > that user.  I could use some sort of NT authentication, but I want to keep
 > independent security from what my IS dept sets.
 > 
 > I have never used cookies.  How do I do this with CMF 1.3 and Zope 2.5.1?
 > Has anyone done this?  If not, is there a how to that would help me figure
 > it out?
Look at the documentation of the "RESPONSE" object (--> embedded Zope Online
help). It provides methods for cookie setting.

You will probably need to extend CookieCrumbler, to make the authentication
cookie persistent.


Dieter